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The Legislature’s lower chamber has finally blessed school vouchers—and denied ordinary Texans the chance to weigh in.

Dallas. His work has appeared most recently in the Tampa Review and X-R-A-Y.

Brian and Joy Roberts are not public school advocates. The co-founders of the Grayson County Conservatives, based in the deep-red county on the state border with Oklahoma, do not liken themselves ...

Editor’s Note: The Observer published this feature in its March 27, 1998, edition.The prior year’s private school voucher proposal narrowly died at the Lege. Bullock wouldn’t discuss his ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

A Texas author earned a certificate in AI—but there’s no way he’d ever use it to write a book.

Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity counts the dollars pouring into the campaign. Here's a bilious breakdown.

One-quarter of the state’s crisis centers, which provide free services to survivors of sexual assault, have waitlists between two and five months.

If efforts fail, Robert Roberson would be the first man executed in America for a murder conviction based on the controversial “shaken baby syndrome” diagnosis.